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| Articles written in 2012 that Hacker News still talks about. |
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| 2012 | | Learnable Programming (worrydream.com) |
| 166 points | 3 years ago with 48 comments |
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| 2012 | | Operant Conditioning by Software Bugs (blog.regehr.org) |
| 166 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2012 | | Far Cry: How the Fire Burns and Spreads (jflevesque.com) |
| 166 points | 3 years ago with 28 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Best Magazine Articles Ever (kk.org) |
| 165 points | 5 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Lambda Calculus for Absolute Dummies (palmstroem.blogspot.com) |
| 165 points | 10 years ago with 34 comments |
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| 2012 | | KH-11 spysat design revealed by NRO’s telescope gift to NASA (americaspace.com) |
| 164 points | 4 years ago with 113 comments |
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| 2012 | | Goto in Bash (bobcopeland.com) |
| 164 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 58 comments |
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| 2012 | | Identifying forum agitators, psyops and shills (edith.reisen) |
| 164 points | 2 years ago with 111 comments |
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| 2012 | | Hello, JIT World: The Joy of Simple JITs (blog.reverberate.org) |
| 162 points across 2 posts | 5 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2012 | | Using Unix as an IDE (sanctum.geek.nz) |
| 162 points | 6 years ago with 54 comments |
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| 2012 | | How doctors choose to die (theguardian.com) |
| 161 points | 9 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2012 | | Do we need copyright? (lemire.me) |
| 161 points | 1 year ago with 164 comments |
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| 2012 | | Interleaving and varying your study location are good learning strategies (wired.com) |
| 161 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments |
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| 2012 | | Facebook deliberately made people sad. This ought to be the final straw (theguardian.com) |
| 161 points | 3 years ago with 146 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why It Took So Long to Invent the Wheel (scientificamerican.com) |
| 160 points | 8 years ago with 155 comments |
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| 2012 | | Storing Drinking-Water in Copper Pots Kills Contaminating Bacteria (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) |
| 160 points | 7 years ago with 136 comments |
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| 2012 | | Life on board a British nuclear submarine (theguardian.com) |
| 159 points | 1 year ago with 185 comments |
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| 2012 | | What I Learned When Facebook Disabled My Account (optimizationtoday.com) |
| 158 points | 7 years ago with 131 comments |
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| 2012 | | More people should write (jsomers.net) |
| 158 points | 1 year ago with 82 comments |
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| 2012 | | Some Excel users pop F1 off their keyboards (businessinsider.com) |
| 158 points | 7 years ago with 216 comments |
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| 2012 | | 301 redirects: a dangerous one way street (jacquesmattheij.com) |
| 158 points | 8 years ago with 86 comments |
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| 2012 | | The story of Henry Ford's $5 a day wages: not what you think (forbes.com) |
| 157 points | 4 years ago with 109 comments |
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| 2012 | | Yes I Still Want to Be Doing This at 56 (thecodist.com) |
| 157 points | 7 years ago with 114 comments |
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| 2012 | | Simple Pathtracing (iquilezles.org) |
| 157 points | 1 year ago with 5 comments |
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| 2012 | | Lockdown: The coming war on general-purpose computing (memex.craphound.com) |
| 157 points | 2 years ago with 84 comments |
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| 2012 | | Most lives are lived by default (raptitude.com) |
| 156 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments |
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| 2012 | | Ideas for Game Clones to Code (inventwithpython.com) |
| 156 points | 8 years ago with 49 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Do So Many Zippers Say YKK? (slate.com) |
| 155 points | 8 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2012 | | Functional Differential Geometry (groups.csail.mit.edu) |
| 155 points | 10 years ago with 38 comments |
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| 2012 | | Lisp: it's not about macros, it's about READ (jlongster.com) |
| 154 points | 8 years ago with 99 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why study functional programming? (acm.wustl.edu) |
| 154 points | 2 years ago with 192 comments |
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| 2012 | | A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (fsharpforfunandprofit.com) |
| 153 points | 5 years ago with 127 comments |
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| 2012 | | Getting Real About Distributed System Reliability (blog.empathybox.com) |
| 152 points | 5 years ago with 6 comments |
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| 2012 | | Linux on an 8-bit micro? (dmitry.gr) |
| 152 points | 8 years ago with 53 comments |
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| 2012 | | FreeBSD has serious problems with focus, longevity and lifecycle (lists.freebsd.org) |
| 150 points | 2 years ago with 176 comments |
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| 2012 | | New Garbage Collector (wiki.luajit.org) |
| 150 points across 2 posts | 3 years ago with 2 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Shady World of Repair Manuals: Copyrighting for Planned Obsolescence (wired.com) |
| 149 points | 5 years ago with 60 comments |
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| 2012 | | Why Do Nigerian Scammers Say They Are from Nigeria? (research.microsoft.com) |
| 149 points | 10 years ago with 73 comments |
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| 2012 | | Scaling to millions of simultaneous connections (erlang-factory.com) |
| 147 points | 10 years ago with 81 comments |
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| 2012 | | Geometric Algebra (arxiv.org) |
| 147 points | 4 years ago with 57 comments |
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| 2012 | | Wood pulp extract stronger than carbon fiber or Kevlar (newatlas.com) |
| 146 points | 7 years ago with 39 comments |
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| 2012 | | What Killed the Linux Desktop (tirania.org) |
| 146 points | 7 years ago with 293 comments |
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| 2012 | | CSE 392 – Programming Challenges (www3.cs.stonybrook.edu) |
| 146 points | 6 years ago with 10 comments |
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| 2012 | | Stop Payment: A homeowner’s revolt against the banks (harpers.org) |
| 145 points | 6 years ago with 122 comments |
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| 2012 | | Controversial Programming Opinions (programmers.blogoverflow.com) |
| 145 points | 3 years ago with 328 comments |
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| 2012 | | Engineering Statistics Handbook (itl.nist.gov) |
| 145 points | 3 years ago with 3 comments |
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| 2012 | | The Nature of Code (natureofcode.com) |
| 145 points | 7 years ago with 16 comments |
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| 2012 | | Smooth Voxel Terrain, Part 2 (0fps.net) |
| 145 points | 3 years ago with 19 comments |
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| 2012 | | What made Bell Labs special? (stat.columbia.edu) |
| 144 points | 7 years ago with 35 comments |
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| 2012 | | Generating all permutations, combinations, and power set of a string (exceptional-code.blogspot.com) |
| 144 points | 7 years ago with 44 comments |
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